Oracle Talent Management

Cloud
Release 12
New Feature Summary
December 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY .................................................................................................................................................3
OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................................................4
TALENT MANAGEMENT COMMON FEATURES .......................................................................................................5
Approval and FYI Notification Personalization ................................................................................................................... 5

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................................6

LEARNING CLOUD................................................................................................................................................................6
Learning Communities ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Real-Time Reports.............................................................................................................................................................. 6

CAREER AND SUCCESSION .....................................................................................................................................7

CAREER DEVELOPMENT.......................................................................................................................................................7
Enhanced User Interface for the Explore Roles Tile ........................................................................................................... 7
New Careers of Interest Tile .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Enhanced Role Page ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Enhanced Role Search Criteria ........................................................................................................................................... 7
PROFILE MANAGEMENT ......................................................................................................................................................8
Attachment Support for HCM Data Loader........................................................................................................................ 8

TALENT MANAGEMENT TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE .......................................................................9

Enhancements for Learning ................................................................................................................................. 9
New Subject Area for Workforce Learning: Workforce Learning Real Time ...................................................................... 9

Enhancements for Talent Management............................................................................................................... 9

New Subject Area for Workforce Talent Review: Talent Review Tasks Real Time ............................................................. 9
Enhanced Subject Area: Goal Alignments Real Time ......................................................................................................... 9
Enhanced Subject Area: Development Goal Overview Real Time ..................................................................................... 9
Enhanced Subject Area: Performance Task Status .......................................................................................................... 10
Enhanced Subject Area: Person Profile ............................................................................................................................ 10
Enhanced Subject Area: Model Profile ............................................................................................................................ 10
New Dimension: Performance Document Participant ..................................................................................................... 10
New Dimension: Criticality ............................................................................................................................................... 10
New Dimension: Review Period ....................................................................................................................................... 11
New Sample Analyses for Talent ...................................................................................................................................... 11

REVISION HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All
updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.
Date
05 DEC 2016

Whats Changed

Notes
Initial Document Creation

OVERVIEW
Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:
Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the
base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)

Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in
which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person
information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the
new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand
alone applications.
Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)

Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)

Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across
all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at:
https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

TALENT MANAGEMENT COMMON FEATURES

Features under this section are available to all talent applications.
APPROVAL AND FYI NOTIFICATION PERSONALIZATION
Personalize talent notifications using the Oracle Page Composer. You can selectively show and hide
various components of the notification, including fields, labels and regions. You can edit labels, color,
and the page layout, as well as add custom text and external links to the page.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

LEARNING CLOUD
Oracle Learning Cloud enables you to make a transformational shift in learning delivery. Subject matter
experts in your organization can easily publish videos and assemble tutorials to deliver on-demand and
social learning. Collaboration features encourage continuous community feedback.
LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Create and join top-down or collaborative learning communities to bring together groups of learners
around a specific business objective. For example, you can create communities for Sales Training for
2016, New Hire Training or other community topics. Community members can recommend learning
items to other members and collaborate socially within the community. Communities can be public,
restricted or secret. You can setup communities to enable members to contribute learning items or
restrict the contribution to only community managers.
REAL-TIME REPORTS
Use the Learning subject areas to report on learning assignments and create compliance-oriented
reports. Additionally, you can create reports for learning engagement data related to videos and
tutorials.

CAREER AND SUCCESSION

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Oracle Fusion Career Development provides tools for workers and managers to manage their career
interests and development plan. These tools include:

Recommendations on roles based on workers qualifications

Comparisons to target roles and required development needs for workers

Management of roles of interest to the worker

Comprehensive development plan for workers to establish development goals and manage
development progress

ENHANCED USER INTERFACE FOR THE EXPLORE ROLES TILE

Recommend roles using the new enhanced pages for the Explore Roles tile. Use the Explore Roles tile to
view:

Roles that were recommended to workers by their managers and HR

Roles that best match a workers competency levels and other talent profile attributes

NEW CAREERS OF INTEREST TILE

Help workers to view their careers of interest in the new Careers of Interest tile. Workers can now use
this tile to review or remove roles added to their Careers of Interest list.
ENHANCED ROLE PAGE
Improve the user experience with the enhanced role page. Help managers and workers to identify role
requirements, view potential competency gaps, and add goals to address any gaps. Help managers to
recommend the role to a report. Help workers to add the role to the careers of interest list and identify
colleagues in the role to mark them as favorites for future interactions.
ENHANCED ROLE SEARCH CRITERIA
Expand the search results for roles using the enhanced search criteria in the Explore Roles tile. You can
now enter any text in the search box, and view all the roles with that text in their title.

PROFILE MANAGEMENT
Oracle Fusion Profile Management provides a common foundation for the talent suite of products and
other Oracle Cloud applications to retrieve, insert, and update talent profile information. Profile
Management also supports the HR specialists, line managers, matrix managers, and employees in
performing critical HR talent functions. Managing people and job profiles, career planning functions,
managing, and tracking talent data can be also done through Profile Management.
ATTACHMENT SUPPORT FOR HCM DATA LOADER
Upload attachments such as resumes or documents when uploading person profile information using
HCM Data Loader.

TALENT MANAGEMENT TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to
all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business
executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing,
compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee
benefits.
ENHANCEMENTS FOR LEARNING
NEW SUBJECT AREA FOR WORKFORCE LEARNING: WORKFORCE LEARNING REAL TIME
Streamline reporting on learning activities using a new subject area called Workforce Learning
Workforce Learning. This new subject area reports on learning events, items, item owners, and
consumers. You can report on count of events, duration of learning items, and count of workers who
completed the learning item assigned to them, status of learning and so on.
ENHANCEMENTS FOR TALENT MANAGEMENT
NEW SUBJECT AREA FOR WORKFORCE TALENT REVIEW: TALENT REVIEW TASKS REAL TIME
Create enhanced reports on tasks associated with talent review meetings with the new Workforce
Talent Review - Talent Review Tasks Real Time subject area. Use the new task details, owners, assignees,
and associated worker subject area dimensions to build more detailed reports about Talent Review
meetings. You can create reports to track tasks by owner or task progress, for example.
ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: GOAL ALIGNMENTS REAL TIME
Enhance Goal Alignment Details with the Performance Goal dimension which allow cross subject area
query with other subject areas that have the Performance Goal dimension.
ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: DEVELOPMENT GOAL OVERVIEW REAL TIME
Enhance your ability to report on the development goals with additional information of one or multiple
intents associated with the goals in the Workforce Career Development - Development Goal Overview
Real Time subject area.

ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: PERFORMANCE TASK STATUS

Report on Performance Tasks subject area that has been enhanced with additional attributes to report
on the bypass or reset done on the performance document tasks by the participants in the
performance evaluation.
ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: PERSON PROFILE
Expand employee profile reporting using the new Previous Employment, Technical Post Details, and
Talent Score dimensions in the Person Profile Real Time subject area. Use the Previous Employment
dimension to report on an employees previous employer, positions, supervisors, achievements, and
employment duration. Use the Technical Post Details dimension to report on an employees technical
posts, granting level and authority, technical level, and expiry date for localizations (particularly China
localizations). Use the Talent Scores dimension to report on an employees talent scores. Talent scores
can come from a talent review meeting for the employee or from the employees profile.
In addition, Risk of Loss, Licenses and Certifications, and Special Projects dimensions in the Person
Profile Real Time subject area were enhanced to include new attributes. Use the Licenses and
Certifications dimension to now include information about the training completed by an employee for a
license and certification together with the establishment and any applicable restrictions. Use the Risk of
Loss dimension to include information about the departure reason and estimated number of months
remaining for an employee. Use the Special Projects dimension to include information about the contact
name for a special project.
ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: MODEL PROFILE
Report on risks to an organization by identifying the critical jobs and positions with the new dimension
added to the Model Profile Real Time subject area.
NEW DIMENSION: PERFORMANCE DOCUMENT PARTICIPANT
Enhance reporting on performance tasks with the new dimension that determines the person or role
associated with each task. A new dimension called Performance Document Participant area is added to
the Performance Tasks Real Time subject area. This new dimension was already included in the
Performance Rating subject area.
NEW DIMENSION: CRITICALITY
Expand employee profile reporting using the new Criticality dimension in the Workforce Profiles -Model
Profiles Real Time subject area. Using this dimension, you can now review risks to an organization by
identifying the critical jobs and positions.

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NEW DIMENSION: REVIEW PERIOD

Streamline integrated reporting on performance and goals using the new time dimension called Review
Period. This is added to the Performance and Goals subject areas. With this new dimension, you can
filter on performance documents and worker goals based on specific business periods.
NEW SAMPLE ANALYSES FOR TALENT
Streamline building analysis by using the following new sample Talent Management analyses now
available:

Performance Document Created vs Not Created: Workers who have created their
performance appraisal documents and those who have not for the selected year and
document period name.

Performance Document Rating Distribution: Distribution of workers by ratings for the

selected performance document period name. Includes both estimated and actual ratings
distribution.

Percent of Performance Document by Status: Distribution of performance document by

various statuses analyzed by dimensions country, department and business unit.

Performance Goals Created vs Not Created: Workers who have created performance goals
for the selected year, as well as those who have not.

Development Goals Created vs Not Created: Workers who created development goals for
the selected year, as well as those who have not.

Profile KPI & Risk of Loss Metric: Key metrics related to worker profiles.

Profile Summary: Count of various profile information such as degrees, languages,

competencies, and so on.

Career Preference Summary: Count of employees by various readiness stages for their next
career move.

Employee Competency Summary: Count of employees by various competencies and their

expertise.

Succession Plan KPI: Key metrics related to succession plans.

Succession Plans Candidates by Readiness: Count of employees in various readiness

statuses for their selected succession plans.

Succession Plans Candidates at High Risk of Loss: Count of employees in various succession
plans and the corresponding count and percentage of employees at high risk of loss.

For access to the library of sample reports and analytic that can be used and/or modified for use please
access Apps Connect and the Report Sharing Center.
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